Freak weather!

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

So THAT'S the answer.

Cheers, twa_dogs!

[Horsetan]

....an unfortunate cargo ship left high and dry in the midlands after the flood waters have receded slightly with only half a days rain today

Are you sure it wasn't an Italian cruise ship?

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

Nah - it wasn't on its side.....

[strang steel]

Don't worry. Things are looking up.

Large high pressure on its way for the end of this coming week.

[60800]

Lovely sunshine over in North Lincolnshire today, 'tis just a shame that it's a bit too windy to fly my Spitfire

[Postman Prat]

Lovely BLUE skies over S. Hampshire till about 10.30 this morning, and from about 5pm. Rest of the time GREY (again). No doubt tomorrow it will do what it did yesterday - be sunny until I get my van loaded and then turn very wet!!

[60800]

The weather held up today for my visit to the CCLR

It got quite windy though, and my mother insisted on sitting in the open carriage on the return trip

[strang steel]

She is obviously trying to toughen you up.

[60800]

Probably. For once I got a video without wind noise though

[2002EarlMarischal]

Well, the Volvo goes to the repairers this coming Tuesday. Whilst they attack the hailstorm dents, I'm getting them to address some rust issues too. My wife's car doesn't go in for repair until 5 September, such is the backlog!

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

The storms flooded my workplace (Timken Vocational Training) to a depth of over a foot in places and never less than 3 inches. We have just about finished repainting the place.

Our Boss has been appointed King Scrounger - God only knows where he managed to scrounge sufficient paint to repaint the whole place. The only bought paint is for the Motor Shop floor which has to be anti-slip. He'd have been a Mighty Scrounger God to get that for nowt!

Oh, I scrounged some carpet tiles which the flood washed (!) and some lino for the refurb.

Skip King!

[Autocar Publicity]

It's amazing (or very depressing) what gets thrown in skips these days. A friend of mine at university got himself a computer system worth several grand (back in the late nineties) for free by picking it out of a skip. I frequently see perfectly good bits of timber in skips, sometimes enough to refit an entire shop or our fundraiser - if it was open more often I'd have asked to take it for that. I've seen shopfitters throw half-full (half-empty? ) boxes of screws in skips as they can't be bothered to take them back for the next job. Consumer society.... no wonder Freecycle is booming.

[LNER Fan 60008]

The local weather's been okay the last few days. Way too much heat prior to this, crops everywhere are suffering.

Still not preferring blizzard conditions where you can't get out at all, however. I've lived through that too, and it is no fun.

[Horsetan]

The local weather's been okay the last few days. Way too much heat prior to this, crops everywhere are suffering.

Not long back from Krakow, where the temperature hit 35deg.C, and stayed above 20 deg.C on my first evening. Impossible to sleep; hotel didn't have air-conditioning in its rooms

Still not preferring blizzard conditions where you can't get out at all, however. I've lived through that too, and it is no fun.

I actually like it when it's cold.

[IAK]

I actually like it when it's cold.

Is one a McTan then sir? Welcome to the club!
One must have Celtic blood/genes in there somewhere...